United States of America, As Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture

Niu Dong

Colleen M McMahan

Maureen C Whalen

Katrina Cornish

Terry A Coffelt

Dante Placido

Byung-Guk Kang

Shashi Kumar

Altered guayule that produce more rubber than the amount of rubber produced by non-altered guayule are provided. The alterations may include (i) a reduction in amount of functional PaAos produced by the altered guayule, (ii) an increase in amount of a transcription factor produced by the altered guayule, (iii) an increase in amount of salicylic acid within the altered guayule, (iv) exposure of the altered guayule to cold temperature, and (v) a combination thereof. Methods of producing the altered guayule and methods of increasing the amount of rubber produced by a guayule are also provided.

Guayule with increased rubber production and yield

The present invention relates to transgenic guayule plants that produce increased amounts of rubber uses thereof.

Transgenic guayule for enhanced isoprenoid production

The present invention relates to transplastomic guayule plants comprising chloroplasts engineered to express the complete cytosolic mevalonic acid (MEV) pathway.

Engineering rubber production in plants

This invention is directed to a new technique of genetic transformation using low light conditions and leaf strips in the Guayule plant,. The invention also relates to new lines of Guayule, created through this technique.

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